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ELSA-2015-0728 Moderate: Oracle Linux ipa and slapi-nis security and bug fix update

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ELSA-2015-0728 Moderate: Oracle Linux ipa and slapi-nis security and bug fix update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/26/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/27/2015
Modified
04/11/2019

Description

The slapi-nis plug-in before 0.54.2 does not properly reallocate memory when processing user accounts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a request for a (1) group with a large number of members or (2) user that belongs to a large number of groups.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ipa-admintools
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ipa-client
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ipa-python
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ipa-server
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ipa-server-trust-ad
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-slapi-nis

References

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